Books I read in June

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Do you ever re-read books?
I don't but I still tried ranking the books I read in June depending on how likely I am to give them a second read at some point in the future.
Books mentioned:
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
Feminism Interrupted by Lola Olufemi
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
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4 окт 2024

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Комментарии : 9

@ulbaboomsbooks 3 месяца назад

Got it 🤣🤣🤣

@novelish_nyiestra7060 3 месяца назад

Haha! I read CLAP WHEN YOU LAND as an e-book for exactly the same prompt 😂 and I also didn't feel like the target audience - we're just getting old 😋

@fayesparallelstories 3 месяца назад

Funny coincidence 😄 I really can’t say anything bad about it, I just didn’t feel that affected by it all. Did you like it more despite being “too old”?

@seanoconnor2865 3 месяца назад

I'm really enjoying your reviews. Hope you keep at it and find success. I'm really liking the nearly 1500 page, A Suitable Boy, if you're ever looking for a long book to get lost in. I feel it's giving me an idea of Indian culture as well as partition/independence politics of 1950s India. It a multi-family saga with humor.

@fayesparallelstories 2 месяца назад

Thank you 😊 Although you make A Suitable Boy sound really good 1500 pages do really intimidate me! I tend to read quite a lot of short books. Do you just get really lost in the pages and prefer a longer read or do you not have a preference?

@seanoconnor2865 2 месяца назад

@@fayesparallelstories I don't have a length preference. I finished A Suitable Boy and I enjoyed it, but I highly recommend skipping political sections which may make up 1/6 of book. Also ending struck me as abrupt. But the mother seeking a suitable boy for her daughter is one of the best characters I've come across in fiction. There's a lot of humor here as well as a few well-drawn historical events. It really leaned into Jane Austen at the end. I wish I could follow the characters beyond the ending, which is the mark of a good book - especially a 1500 page book.

@zachreads 3 месяца назад

I read 14 books 5091 pages I never got slumpy but from an enjoyment perspective this was pbly my worst month of the year. Starting with "After World" by Debbie Urbanski (I wanted "I Who Have Never Known Men" vibes but all I got was a waste of time) The internet will hate me but I gave "The Song of Achilles" 2☆ (I liked Circe but this story got mangled by painting over all the terrible things Achilles did in the myths) On the more positive side my pre-orders "Apostles of Mercy" by Lindsay Ellis and "You Like it Darker" by Stephen King were good! My last book of the month was "No Mans Chattel" by Lee Swanson which was good historical fiction and the first audiobook Ive listened to narrated by Virtual Voice which didnt bother me at all and if anything sounds better than a human at higher speeds

@fayesparallelstories 2 месяца назад

Yas! I love reading about unpopular opinions, especially when I agree ;-) I also did not really get the Song of Achilles hype. After hearing so many people say that they cried loads and that it was a beautiful love story, I felt let down by the book as I did not get emotionally invested that much. (Who would root for Achilles!?) I am sending better readind luck this month!